Focus Under Pressure
Attention is trainable, but not by the methods that sell best. Five lessons on getting difficult work done while the room is on fire.
Theo MarshMindset instructorIntermediate(4 reviews)
FeaturedMost advice about focus assumes the problem is willpower and the solution is a better app. Both assumptions are usually wrong, and following them produces people with elaborate systems who still can’t start.
This course takes the opposite route. It starts by testing whether you have a focus problem at all, then builds the smallest possible structure that works when you’re tired, distracted, and behind - because that’s the condition in which focus actually has to function.
What you'll learn
- Tell a focus problem apart from an unclear-next-step problem
- Run a ninety-minute block that doesn't depend on feeling motivated
- Recover your attention after an interruption in under two minutes
- Build a pre-performance routine that still works on a bad day
- Notice when optimising your system has become the way you avoid the work
The curriculum
6 lessons · 44 min · 1 quiz
- Focus is usually a clarity problemThe test that tells you whether you need discipline or just a smaller next step.
- The ninety-minute blockA working structure that doesn't require motivation to start it.
- Coming back from an interruptionYou will be interrupted. The cost is in the return, and the return is trainable.
- A routine for bad daysWhat a pre-performance routine is for, and why it must be small enough to survive.
- When the system becomes the hobbyThe most sophisticated form of procrastination, and how to catch yourself doing it.
- Focus checkQuizFive questions on clarity, blocks, interruption recovery, and system-fiddling.
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Theo Marsh
Mindset instructor
Theo teaches the psychology of habit - why some routines stick and most don't. He's more interested in the boring, repeatable version of a practice than the dramatic one.
Student reviews
What students say
4.8
4 reviews
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- Lena V.
The first lesson told me I did not have a focus problem, I had an undefined task. Slightly annoying to hear and completely correct.
- Ciaran M.
You may work badly, but you may not leave. I have that written on a card above my desk and it has done more than any app.
- Ayo T.
Very good, particularly the breadcrumb habit before an interruption. The block structure needs a job where you can defend two hours, which not everyone has.
- Sarah B.
The lesson about the system becoming the hobby was uncomfortably accurate. I froze my setup for a month and finally shipped something.
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